West India Customs and Manners: Containing Strictures on the Soil, Cultivation, Produce, Trade, Officers, and Inhabitants: with the Method of Establishing, and Conducting a Sugar Plantation. To which is Added, the Practice of Training New Slaves. By J. B. Moreton, Esq. A New EditionJ. Parsons; W. Richardson; H. Gardner; and J. Walter, 1793 - 192 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 57
... interest is 20801 . which , added to the annual expence , is 28801 . Now , supposing the estate to be well managed , and to make upon an average one hundred and fixty hogsheads of good Mufcovado fugar yearly , E and and eighty puncheons ...
... interest is 20801 . which , added to the annual expence , is 28801 . Now , supposing the estate to be well managed , and to make upon an average one hundred and fixty hogsheads of good Mufcovado fugar yearly , E and and eighty puncheons ...
الصفحة 59
... interest of which is 9601. A colt will fell for 30 , 40 , 50 , or 601. an ox for 201. a fat sheep for 40s . and after the first four or five years , I should suppose a penn of this kind would annually have forty E2 forty colts , forty ...
... interest of which is 9601. A colt will fell for 30 , 40 , 50 , or 601. an ox for 201. a fat sheep for 40s . and after the first four or five years , I should suppose a penn of this kind would annually have forty E2 forty colts , forty ...
الصفحة 70
... interest of the money , pays for the estate ; I do assure you , that many mighty men in councils and assemblies , all over the West Indies , have acquired all their greatness by such ignoble fchemes . " Such mighty heroes that were ...
... interest of the money , pays for the estate ; I do assure you , that many mighty men in councils and assemblies , all over the West Indies , have acquired all their greatness by such ignoble fchemes . " Such mighty heroes that were ...
الصفحة 72
... until the mortgage , with interest , and all costs , are discharged . When a mortgagee wishes to get an estate into his own poffeffion , he discharges dischages the old manager , and appoints some indolent lazy 72 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... until the mortgage , with interest , and all costs , are discharged . When a mortgagee wishes to get an estate into his own poffeffion , he discharges dischages the old manager , and appoints some indolent lazy 72 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 75
... interest to direct him to convert them into rum , which will answer very well , for two hogsheads will make one puncheon of rum . You may be affured that no attention of mine shall be wanting to your concerns in this quarter ; Sneaking ...
... interest to direct him to convert them into rum , which will answer very well , for two hogsheads will make one puncheon of rum . You may be affured that no attention of mine shall be wanting to your concerns in this quarter ; Sneaking ...
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